Lisa

“Being deaf is not a weakness or it shouldn’t be seen as one and that’s what I wanted to get across that day. It’s still what I want people to see. It’s the same thing with the special needs kids. They are no different than I am, than anyone is really. Just because they might act in ways that ‘normal’ people don’t or experience life in a different way, it doesn’t make them wrong or less than anyone else. We’re not weak or what’s wrong with the world.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Hear Me Now

“You can't change ignorance by beating a hole into someone's face. Doing that only makes you as ignorant as they are.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Hear Me Now

“The sad reality is, it's not just the people I go to school with that are doing it. It's their parents too. Their noses are all turned up at me, like because of my diagnosis; I'm an alien to them. I'm not like their son or daughter so that means I'm not worthy of respect.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“I want to feel you squeezing me and I want to eat your greedy little noises.”
― Anonymous